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Show 91st Date r 'Cw- 1 i 7"r" j FUCHSIA STRINGHAM Fuchsia Stringham of 125 West 300 North, Bountiful, celebrated her 91st birthday on Saturday, March 4. MISS Stringham is Davis County's oldest living school teacher. She was born in Bountiful on Friday, March 4, 1887 to Jed and Isabel le Hunter Hog-gan Hog-gan Stringham. WHEN she was six years old she attended the dedication dedica-tion of the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She attended schools at the beginners school located in two rooms where the University Univer-sity of Utah complex now stands which was for many years the 2nd Ward Chapel. Then the Patty Sessions School house located across from the old Bamberger depot and then in the Relief Society hall located north of where the Stoker School grounds are and then the Central School, east of this same area. SHE LATER attended the LDS University in Salt Lake City and the University of Utah from which she graduated with a teaching certificate. She taught in Bountiful. SHE WAS. also a bookkeeper for her father and Dr. G. C. Stocks. After learn- . ing the art of china painting she gave lessons for many years. She then became a bookkeeper at Hill Field where in 1957 she retired after 15 years of service. FUCHSIA'S father, Jed Stringham, was one of Boun-tiful's Boun-tiful's first mayors and the first bishop of the Bountiful 2nd Ward. The Stringham family home was located on Main Street where Carr Stationery store stands. A portion of the home can still be seen. FUCHSIA served as a Sunday Sun-day School teacher, MIA president. Relief Society counselor and Stake MIA counselor and helped put on many church plays. She ran for Davis County treasurer. After a few lessons she taught herself to play the piano. SHE worked with her father and brother on a farm on the east bench of Bountiful. She loves gardening and for many years was a member of the local Flora Dell Garden Club. ALTHOUGH she never married she loved children and poured her love and affection af-fection on the children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren of her brothers and sisters. She has two living sisters, Mrs. Rulon (Marjorie) Bur-ningham Bur-ningham and Mrs. Arthur (Dacia) Jolliffe, who reside in Bountiful. Two sisters Roberta Rober-ta and Rosabelle and four brothers Roland, Walter, DeVan and Gordon have passed away. ON FRIDAY, March 3,64 members of her family honored her at a surprise birthday party at the Lion House in Salt Lake City. After dinner, a reader's theatre, written by Kim Bur-ningham, Bur-ningham, a nephew was presented along with a slide presentation, showing highlights of her life. |
